Word: roth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right. Tonight through Sunday at Passim Chris Smither plays bluesy folk, and Kevin Roth accompanies himself on dulcimer. Shows at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 8:30 p.m. only tonight and Sunday; admission is $3.50. Next Wednesday and Thursday Willie Nininger, the guy with the associate-professorish picture, will play folk guitar and make you laugh for $3, starting...
Strange Brew Coffeehouse--Hilles Penthouse at 8 Chris Smither and Kevin Roth--Passim at 8:30 Molly Malone--Back Room at the Idler at 9 Chuck McDermott and Wheatstraw--Jonathan Swift's at 9 Foxfire--Springfield Street Saloon at 9 Gigolo, Sue Gordan and Company Coming--Sword-in-the-Stone at 9 FSSGB Group Sing--Interfaith Building...
...tomb. The official reason for their trip: a match with the Chinese national soccer squad. Alas for the Cosmos, the Chinese tied the first game and won the second 2-1. "We did not expect to find soccer of this caliber in China," conceded Cosmos Captain Werner Roth. But at a welcoming banquet, the mood was jovial, and the Chinese players eagerly pumped their visitors about AstroTurf and the height of buildings in Manhattan. The curious Chinese will soon find out for themselves. They arrive for a five-game U.S. tour next week and are scheduled to play the Cosmos...
This conclusion is both somber and ludicrous - and no one now writing can juggle these clashing qualities more adroitly than Roth. Also on display are other Roth virtues: an uncanny sense of pacing and an ear for dialogue that approaches perfect pitch. Roth can wring acid comedy from the dishrag of kitchen quarrels. Kepesh recalls a tandem tantrum he had with his wife: " 'I don't believe I am having this discussion,' she says. 'Life isn't toast!' she finally screams. 'It is!' I hear myself maintaining. 'When you sit down...
...become fashionable to twit Roth for returning so often to characters like Kepesh: enough, already, of Jewish intellectual sex maniacs. Such criticism is self-incriminating, a tribute to Roth's wicked skill at probing nerves and making people who think they know better say silly things. Like most writers who prove they have enough talent for the long haul of a career, Roth has found the story he will tell until either he or it is exhausted. It is a good story and, as The Professor of Desire proves, it gets better with each telling...